The Whirlpool Galaxy - Sparkling with X-Rays
Nearly a million seconds of observing time with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way glittering with hundreds of X-ray points of light.
This galaxy’s official name is Messier 51 (M51) or NGC 5194, but it often goes by its nickname of the “Whirlpool Galaxy.” Like the Milky Way, the Whirlpool is a spiral galaxy with spectacular arms of stars and dust. M51 is located about 30 million light years from Earth, and its face-on orientation to Earth gives us a perspective that we can never get of our own spiral galactic home.
By using Chandra, astronomers can peer into the Whirlpool to uncover things that can only be detected in X-rays. In this new composite image, Chandra data are shown in purple. Optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope are red, green, and blue.
Credit: NASA/Hubble/Chandra/Harvard
“Erik, dear, tourists are making a buzz of your giant cat sunbathing on the roof of your penthouse, they can see him all the way from the Rockefeller observation deck.” Emma clicks on another Youtube video.
Oh, they were the ones who waved at me! Charles chirps.
“…not only abnormally big, but also telepathic. You better not let U.S. government knows this, they were debating if they should prepare for Giant Alien Cat Invasion of Earth.” Because Charles is a global super star now and so likable, there were some movie invitations, even.
Erik stretches and buries his face into Charles’ fur, “Let’s take a walk and make everyone wish Giant Alien Cat Invasion will happen now.”
The story about how Erik have a cat Charles, who grew into the biggest cat in the world. Inspired by this
I'm going to pretend I didn't see this.
Mother nature really has it out for MA in 2013.
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You are a villain famous for “killing” heroes. In reality, heroes come to you to fake their deaths.
There is a thin, semantic line separating weird and beautiful. And that line is covered in jellyfish.
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Thank you Google for the great Doodle honoring Annie Jump Cannon today!
Annie Jump Cannon (December 11, 1863 - April 13, 1941) was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was the first serious attempt to organize and classify stars based on their temperatures. She was nearly deaf throughout her career.
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